Persan-Beaumont Airport
Persan-Beaumont Airport Aérodrome de Persan - Beaumont (former Advanced Landing Ground A-60) | |||||||||||||||||||
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AMSL 149 ft / 45 m | | ||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 49°09′54″N 002°18′42″E / 49.16500°N 2.31167°E | ||||||||||||||||||
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Persan-Beaumont Airport (
History
Beaumont Sur Oise was a pre-
The airfield was seized by the Germans in June 1940 during the Battle of France. It was used by the Luftwaffe only sparingly, with Luftlandegeschwader 1 (LLG 1), a glider unit being assigned to the airfield between April and May 1943, equipped with Henschel Hs 126 liaison aircraft; Dornier Do 17s to pull the units DFS 230 transport gliders. Later, in November and December 1943, Schlachtgeschwader 4 (SLG 4) operated Focke-Wulf Fw 190F/Gs as a ground-attack unit.[4]
Beaumont was attacked on several missions by the
The airfield was liberated by Allied ground forces about 3 September 1944 during the Northern France Campaign. Almost immediately, the United States Army Air Forces IX Engineering Command 818th Engineer Aviation Battalion cleared the airport of mines and destroyed Luftwaffe aircraft. Fortunately, little battle damage was sustained, and the airport became a USAAF Ninth Air Force combat airfield, designated as "A-60" about 26 September.[6][7]
Under American control, the
Current
After the war, the airport appears to have been torn down, and a new facility constructed about 200m to the southeast. The wartime concrete runway remains in a field complete with many patches of bomb craters, connected to what appears to be the prewar French air base. At least one large hangar is still standing, and numerous support buildings. In addition, old taxiways reduced in width are being used as farm access roads.
Facilities
The airport resides at an
See also
- Advanced Landing Ground
References
- ^ a b c LFPA – PERSAN BEAUMONT. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 18 April 2024.
- ^ "Distance and heading from Persan (49°09'15"N 02°16'19"E) to LFPA (49°09'54"N 02°18'42"E)". Great Circle Mapper. 21 December 2012.
- ^ "Distance and heading from Paris (48°51'24"N 02°21'03"E) to LFPA (49°09'54"N 02°18'42"E)". Great Circle Mapper. 21 December 2012.
- ^ The Luftwaffe, 1933-45
- ^ USAFHRA Document 00220537
- ^ Johnson, David C. (1988), U.S. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO), D-Day to V-E Day; Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB, Alabama.
- ^ IX Engineer Command ETO Airfields, Airfield Layout
- ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
- ^ This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
External links
- Aeronautical chart and airport information for LFPA at SkyVector
- Accident history for LFPA at Aviation Safety Network